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"Great victory for the cryptocurrency market" – A White House official has spoken.
David Sacks, describing the FDIC's decision to remove the "reputational risk" from banking supervision as a "great victory", emphasized that this measure would prevent cryptocurrency companies from being deprived of banking services due to uncertain and subjective criteria.
David Sacks, the cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence lead at the White House, described the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's decision regarding cryptocurrency as a "great victory." This assessment from Sacks pertains to the fact that the FDIC has eliminated the "reputational risk," which has long been a factor in banking supervision. According to Sacks, this step signifies the end of vague and subjective criteria that limited legal cryptocurrency companies' access to banking services.
Cryptocurrency companies faced various challenges, particularly regarding access to banking services. The concept of "reputational risk" in the context of FDIC oversight could lead banks to avoid working with these companies due to negative news in the media, whether true or not. The initiative known as "Operation Chokepoint 2.0" paved the way for the exclusion of cryptocurrency-related companies from banking services due to their "high reputational risk." This resulted in sufficient financial difficulties to hinder the operations of many cryptocurrency exchanges.
Sacks' statements were as follows:
A great victory for crypto: the FDIC, following the OCC's lead, eliminates 'reputation risk' as a factor in bank supervision. While reputation risk may seem logical at first glance, it has been defined as 'the potential for negative news regarding a financial institution's business practices, whether true or not, to lead to a decrease in clientele, costly litigation, or a drop in revenue.' In practice, this vague and subjective criterion was used to justify the denial of banking services to legal crypto businesses under Operation Chokepoint 2.0. Banking criteria should be based on objective and quantitative measures, rather than the likelihood of unfounded news. Thanks to Senator Tim Scott for his leadership on this issue!
FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) is an independent agency created in the United States to protect depositors in the banking system and ensure the proper functioning of banks. It supervises whether banks fulfill their responsibilities to depositors and strives to enhance safety by considering the public interest in the banking sector. FDIC also guarantees that depositors covered by insurance do not suffer losses in the event of bank failures. In this role, FDIC establishes various rules and enforces supervisory mechanisms to ensure the proper functioning of banks.
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